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THE BOURBON NEWS
prtaUiifced 18P1 41 Years of Con
tinuous .Publication
Fublished Erery Tuesday and Friday
Per Tear $2.006 Months $1.00
Payable. Cash, in Advance.
JWIFT CHAMFi Editor and Owner.
!Tfttered at the Paris, Kentucky.
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the cash.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation
which may appear in the columns
ofTHE BOURBON NEWS will be
gladly corrected if brought to the
attention of the editor.
EDITORIAL FUNGS
This hootch is worst of any town,
It brings a lot of woes;
You'd better turn bootleggers down
Ere you turn up your toes.
A Louisville man has become
obsessed with the idea that he is the
devil. Now the moral is: Don't
believe everything your wife tells
.you.
"A little learning is a dangerous
-thing."
-As proof, pray take the case
Of, some sweet maid
"When first she learns
'To decorate her face.
"What persons regulate to their
speech
Depends on what they would reach;
""The man who asks you for a loan
-Xiikely talks in softest tone.
A Paris father chided his son be
cause his school books were so clean
as to suggest infrequent use.
"Well," said the kid, "my geography
ain't no cleaner than your Bible."
"What has become of the old-fash-ioned
Paris wife who thought her
'husband was so humane because he
iwent down town every night to
,feed the kitty?"
'When you size up the fellow who
complains he has been "the victim of
circumstances, you generally con
clude that circumstances .didn't
have a very hard tussle in downing
Jiim.
We are accustomed to thinking of
TPhiladelphia as slow. Yet the dis
' 'Covery has just been made that a
.ign on one of, the principal build
ings in Louisville has been wrong
"'.for more than, twenty-five years.
I heard of a man sying of his
dead friend: "He didn't have a dol
lar, but he was one of the best-loved
men in town." Was not that as
perfect an epitaph as the human
tongue could devise or human be
iing wish for?
Thursday will be the annual re
currence of Columbus Day, which
-will be appropriately celebrated all
-over America. But we are willing
to bet that when Columbus discov
ered America he couldn't have had
the thrill that a fellow gets when he
finds a five-dollar bill in the pocket
-of an old pair of pants.
The man whose thirst impels him
"to purchase liquor from a bootlegger
can judge by a simple test whether
r not it is safe to dring the stuff.
Just pour the entire contents of
each container into an open sewer.
lit the liquor crawls out of the pipe
and back into the bottle, it is im
pure; if it goes through it's safe.
tSee?
There is nothing sadder in this
world .than the spectacle of a little
Paris boy complaining as he goes to
foed, that the day has been so short
."he only had time to break four
-wimdows, rip his trousers three.
timwHirive a nail through the
-family alhum xad put three snakes
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in theteacher,s"desk. We know it,
for we have been along that line,
nd have done those very things
and caught what was coming to us
after, too.
Thomas A. Edison will be handed
down in world history as a great in
ventor because he is believed to
nave invented tnat yarn aDout
being possible to work twenty hours J
a. day, and sleep during that part of
the remaining four hours that is not
devoted to eating or recreation. ,
One reason for frequent divorces
in America is the popularity, of the
ideal expressed in the term "love
nest," and the unpopularity of the
old-fashioned conception of house
hold equipment which included a
tin wash basin on the back porch
for some of the boys to use while the
rest of the children washed their
faces and hands in the house.
Of course we're an old grouch, and
don't know nothing about it anyhow
noways, either, but, if our opinion
were asked, we would say that much
of this enthusiasm about the world
series, strikes us as being made to
order. If you've got the money, and
are willing to spend it, you can
have a winning team; that seems
to be the way out of it, and ones
sporting blood is just as little stir
red over , such a contest as when a
wealthy stock broker gives, an order
to buy a likely Derby winner and
luck stays with him long enough for
a blue ribbon.
October is rich in notable birth
day anniversaries. Already we have
had the anniversaries of Rufus
Choate, James Lawrence, Geo. Ban
croft, President Hayes, Jonathan
Edwards, President Arthur, Lyman
Beecher and the city editor of THE
BOURBON NEWS; and the month
still holds for us the birthdays of
Roosevelt, Thomas B. Reed, William
Penn, Admiral Schley, Noah Web
ster, President John Adams, Roscoe
Conklin, John Hay, John Keats,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Helen
Hunt Jackson, Leigh Hunt, McCau
lay, Sarah Bernhardt, Lamartine,
Palmerson, Allan Ramsey, and Den
ton. STATE HISTORICAL BODY ELECTS
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
The Kentucky State Historical
Society re-elected Mrs. Jouett T.
Cannon, secretary-treasurer of ' the
organization. H. V. McChesney was
elected first vice-president and Mrs.
Lister Witherspoon, of Versailles,
second vice-president.
Honorary vice-presidents elected
are: Major Edgar Hume. U. S. Med
ical Corps; Lieutenant Governor S.
Thurston Ballard, Mrs. Annie E.
Miles, Frankfort; Mrs. W. I. Fowler,
Frankfort, and Col. Tom Stuart,
Winchester.
The executive committee is com
posed of Mr. McChesney, chairman;
Mrs. Cannon, Mrs. Witherspoon,
Mrs. George Barker, Mrs. J. P. Hob
son, J. Swigert Taylor and L. F.
Johnson, Frankfort; Mrs. W. T. Laf
ferty, Lexington; R. C. Ballard
Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Cassius
M. Clay, Paris, and Lucien Becker,
of Winchester.
Mr. McChesney is editor of the
Register and business manager of
the society. Mrs. Cannon is assist
ant editor. and, William E. Railey is
assistant librarian.
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THE REWARD OF BUYING AT
HOME
After all the sending or taking
away of our home money is but a
matter of thoughtlessness, which
the sender possibly construes as
thoughtfulness and economy. The
above illustration is an exam
ple. We are often carried away by
the foolish idea that out of town
stores can give us better prices, dis
regarding the fact thatour home
merchants have a fixed policy to ask
only that just percentage of profit
that permits 'the doing of business
on a modern scale. '
MORAL Reward is sweet when
you know you have done the right
thing.
SNIPE EXTINCT ANIMAL
What was once a popular diver
sion -in the rural districts has al
most become decadent. This was the
"snipe hunt" arranged for the un
sophisticated visitor from the city
who nearly always fell for the joke
put up by his country cousin.
These1 "snipe hunts" always were
arranged with great detail and the
victim from the city stationed at
some lonely spot to hold the bag for
the collection of the snipe after the
drive. After holding out for several
hours and hearing all sorts of
strange noises the terrorized bag
holder ordinarily tumbled to the
sell and sneaked back to his quar
ters to undergo the jibes and taunts
of the perpetrators of the trick.
The expression, "holding the bag,"
owes its origin to the old-fashioned
"snipe .hunt" in which the country
folks .turned the tables on, smart
city chap. ( ' ...
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tJTHE BOUKSSflg NEls;FARgKKnfCgr
DTE MIND THE TIME
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Paris, As Told in THE
NEWS' Piles?
DAYS , OF AITLD, LANG SYNE
There's no denying that to most
of us there is a certain satisfaction
in reviewing the events of long ago,
as they are presented .to us, either
casually or by force of some remin
iscent strain of the moment. And
to those who lived here in the long
ago the recalling of events in the
old days of Paris affords a peculiar
satisfaction all its own. They, per
haps, more than we who have
grown used to the old place, will
appreciate . these items, taken at
random from a copy of THE BOUR
BON NEWS of Friday, April 21,
1882:
Dr. J. T. McMillan sold a Jersey
cow and calf this morning to Alex
McClintock, for $500.
Alex McClintock will hold a pub-1
lie sale of Shorthorn cattle at Mis
sion Valley Junction on the 22d
inst. Also, at Lemars, Iowa, On May
5 th.
Dr. Waller, of Lancaster, will
move into the Joe Will Miller resi
dence vacated by the NEWS, in a
few days.
Maysville boys are borrowing
money from their Cincinnati friends
during the session of the Grand
Jury this week.
"Where he leads, I will follow,"
will apply to the young men again,
since Mr. Barnes has shaved off his
side-whiskers.
Frank Armstrong received" a note
from Miss Marie Barnes Wednesday,
saying "Georgetown is lovely, and
everybody in it. Thirty confessions
and a crodwed court house."
The time for the races to begin at
Lexington at 12 o'clock instead of
2, gives great cause of complaint to
the city people, but is satisfactory
to many from the country.
The marriage of a good-looking
and well-to-do Cincinnati lumber
merchant to one of our handsome
and wealthy bluegrass bells, is a
near-in-the-future event.
Boot Jack, Luke Blackburn and
Hindoo will be pitted against each
other for the cup at the spring meet
ing of the Louisville Jockey Club.
Col. W. W. Baldwin, of Mason
county, is mowing all of his fallen
rye, and is feeding it to his mules.
He has also plowed up his oats and
has sown again.
Mike Thornton, of Millersburg,
desires all wHo wish buggy painting
and repairing for the June races, in
that city, had better send in their
work immediately, so as to avoid the
grand-rush of next month.
The pistol that Jesse James carrir
ed has not been shown on the second-hand
market of the city yet, but
a new single-barrel shot gun can be
bought at this office for $3.50.
With 621 Barnes converts and the
negro brass band disbanded, the
devil has no further use for Paris,
but has packed his grip-sack and
taken up his permanent abode in
Cynthiana.
The huge law sign of Brent &
Lucas blew down on the head of Ed.
Mitchell, a New York grocery drum
mer, on Wednesday, and awakened
him to the horrible fact that signs
are sometimes given when not asked
for.
Rays from the sun, shining
through a lamp reflector in Mrs. S.
J. Turney's window, set fire to a
box of dry goods notions the other
day. rThe reflector being convex,
has all the powers of concentrating
the rays1 the same as a sun-glass.
"Parasols with'' huge bouquets of
peonies and rosesas large as sauc
ers,"perched up on top,, are now dis
played in the2 windows of all fash
ionable notion stores in Cincinnati.
They wear a very circussy appear
ance, and are too utter for ordinary
use.
Since we threw that little bomb
shell filled with two-edged truths
into the old city council, we lost one
subscriber and gained seven in the
city. Thus is seems that the major
ity of our citizens are in for fair
play and square business.
The unsuspecting citizens of Lex
ington ordered out their fire depart
ment the other night, to put out the
aurora-boreal is. Now we know they
need the Capitol.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Jennie
Crosland, niece of Wm. Shaw, Sr.,
took her four children and went
over to Shakertown to make their j
future home. Mr. Shaw followed
them to the depot, and protested
against tne girjs oemg taiten away,
claiming that as he was their guar
dian, he had -the right to take
charge of them Whilst in waiting
for the train, some unpleasant
personal remarks were uttered by
both parties, but Mrs. C. was finally
permitted to take her children.
In Criminal Court this week,
Wm. Bradley, white, for obtaining
goods under false pretenses, was
sent up for one year; the case of
Mrs. Moreland, for . complicity in
murder, was filed away with leave,
which is 'equivalent to dismissal;
Jesse and Frank Smith, for assault
and battery, fined $100; Dan Roche
and Henry Turney, for selling liquor
to minors, were fined. $60 each; Jim
Batterton and Jake Schwartz, for
same, were acquitted; John Lyle.
for gambling, acquitted: the North
vMiddletown an Owingiville turn-
Y.
V" Jr zl
pike company, fined $50 for keeping
the road in bad condition.
H. M. Roseberry has in his em
ploy one of the sturdy young Eng
lishmen who came to this county to
learn farming. The man deposited
$120 with his employer, who in turn
will pay it back to him at the rate
of ten dollars per month, for his
services. This young man is near
twenty years of age, and is of intel
lectual and clutivated appearance.
He entered into a written agreement
to do all kinds of farm work being
exempted only from menial services,
such as bootblacking and house
drudgery.
This may be a little chilling to
the budding hopes in the dear
Spring time of Will Owens, but
'Squire Jim Mitchell, the North
Middletown roporter of " the True
Kentuckian, says this week: "All
our people in this precinct are for
Joe Blackburn over Owens, or any
body else. We believe in fair play
in all things. Owens tried to play
too nice a game."
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DEMOCRATS URGED TO BOOST
CANDIDATES
Congressman J. Campbell Cantrill
and Alben W. Barkley were men
tioned as being possible candidates
for next year's gubernatorial race at
the meeting of the Democratic State
committee held in Louisville. No
definite action endorsing either of
the men was taken.
Action in the Clayhole case was
deferred until a later date because
the meeting lacked enough repre
sentatives to make a quorum, it was
said. It had been announced that
the State Committee would make
endeavors to relieve the families of
the men connected with the Clay
hole election case.
During the meeting, which had
formed itself into a mass assembly,
a resolution was offered by Joseph
Robinson, of Lancaster, asking that
every Kentucky Democrat make ex
traordinary efforts to elect the con
gressional candidates and Judge
David A. McCandless. in the Third
i appellate district.
A general denunciation of the
State and National administrations
was made in the resolution. It said
that practically every member of
the State and National organization
had violated promises made to se
cure their election.
"NOW. IF I WAS RUNNING THIS
TOWN"
"Alomst every day of the week we
hear some one say, 'Believe me. if I
was running this town I'd do so and
so.' Probably at least half of the
suggestions might prove valuable
and the people who are running the
town would be glad to get them.
"The plain truth of the matter is
that every citizen of the town has or
should have a hand in the way a
town is operated. Far too many of
them feel that when they have elect
ed a mayor or city council they have
dispensed with their full duty.
Those people are elected simply in
order that the will of the people
may be carried out not in order
that the town may be run as a mere
handful of men dictate.
"These men you have elected do
not claim to be all-wise in the best
methods of governing a town. They
are there to carry out the wisest of
the suggestions they receive. Nat
urally when they do not receive any
have to fall back on their own ideas.
But they would be only too glad to
get ideas from every citizen', so
hereafter, instead of saying, 'Believe
me, if I was running this town'
just realize that it is part of your
job to have a hand in the running
and tell the right person what you
would do."
PRIZE FOR HIGHEST SCHOOL
GRADE
The announcement that Jonas
Weil, a prominent Fayette county
livestock dealer and farmer, will
give $100 yearly for a prize to the
agricultural student making the
highest grades during his- freshman
and sophomore years at the college
of agriculture of Kentucky Univer
sity, shows his close feeling for the
college. Mr. Weil has been in close
touch with the college and experi-
ment station for years and is one of
its strongest supporters. The prize
will come through the Alpha Zeta
fraternity.
LOCUSTS DEVOUR CROPS; FARM
ERS EAT MULBERRIES
Locusts larger than American
grasshoppers aided the cause of
prohibition in the Zangezour dis
trict by devouring so much of the
crops that people were obliged to
eat their stock of mulberries, usu
ally devoted to making brandy for
market. Their devastation march
lasted a fortnight and left in its
wake barren fields and starving:
people.
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If you,- have to worry, do it after
something has happened; not before.
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ANOTHER RECORD "v'BROrEN AT
LEJONGTONTROTS
The Mav Dav stalce. worm Slz.-i
500, the most valuable race for 2-year-old
trotters ever contested in
the history of the light harness
game, was won in sensational style
at the Kentucky Trotting Hors$
Breeders' Association track at Lex
ington, Friday afternoon by The
Senator, owned by Thomas D. Tag
gart, setting, a new world's record
for a three-heat race by 2 -year-olds
and a, new world's record for a third
heat by 2-year-olds.
After the race Mr. and Mrs. Ta'g
gart were called to ,,the stand and
presented with the trophy that went
with the event. C. H. Traiser, of
Boston, was presented with the gold
cup that goes to the winner of the
Board of Commerce event.
The May Day Stake was worth
$9,350 to th winner, $2,000 to Jane
Revere, which got second money,
and $1,000 to Gulf Breeze. Gulf
Breeze has been lame nearly all
season and was started in the Ken
tucky Futurity after very little
work.
ENJOYING HIMSELF
(Providence Journal)
What has become of the old-fashioned'
man who used to think that
when autumn arrived it was time.
to shut all the windows and sit in
the chimney corner till spring? He
is probably out on the golf links or
the tennis court, matched up in
happy rivalry with- the younger gen
eration. The fellow they say "has a good
carriage" may be just a little buggy.
INTERURBAN TIME
TABLE
Paris to
Lexington
7:p5 a. m.
8:05 a. m.
9:05 a. m.
10:05 a. m.
11:05 a. m.
12:05 p. m.
1:05 p. m.
2:05 p. m.
3:05 a. m.
4:05 p. m.
5:05 p. m.
6:05 p. m.
7:05 p. m.
8:15 p. m.
10:05 p. m.
Lexington
To Paris
6:00 a. m
7:00 a. m
8:00 a. m
9:00 a. m.
10:00 a. m.
11:00 a. m.
12:00 m.
1:00 p. m.
2:00 p. m.
3:00 p. m.
4:00 p. m.
5:00 p. sa,
6:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m.
9:10 p. m.
11:55 p. m.
11:00 p. m.
Cash Fare, 60c; Ticket Fare, 54c.
Commutation 52 trip monthly book,
$12.00. Tickets, single trip, or in
Quantities, date unlimited, sold he
tween all points at reduced rates.
KENTUCKY TRACTION & TER
MINAL CO.
(dec6-tf)
Plant This Fall
Fruit and Shade Trees
Blooming Shrubs
Small Fruits
Grape Vines
Evergreens
Perennials
In fact, everything for Orchard,
Lawn and Garden. Our illustrated
catalog this year is the most com
plete nursery book ever issued in
the South. It is free for the asking.
H. F. Hillenmeyer & Sans
BLUE' GRASS NURSERIES,
Lexington, Kentucky,
CAHAL BROS.
BARBER SHOP
4-WHITE BARBERS-4T
Modern Equipment
Expert and Polite Service
HOT AND COLD BATHS
DO YOUR TALKING
OVER THE
-HOME-LONG
DISTANCE
FOR BEST RESULTS
QUICK ECONOMICAL
PUBLIC SALE
16th STREET PROPERTY
Thursday, October 12th, 2 P. M.
Having decided to locate in Covington, Ky., I will offer at auction
on the premises, the following described real estate:
House of 6 rooms and a large reception hall, situated on Sixteenth
street, between High and Cypress. The house is heated by gas and
lighted throughout by electricity; has bath complete; a good dry cellar;
concrete walks leading from street to house; shade strees and is situated
on one of the best side streets in Paris. It is within a short distance
of the car line. The entire house is in splendid condition, having re
cently been painted and papered. For particulars, apply to
HARRIS, SPEAKES & HARRIS, Agents,
t "; ( . Phouesr Home, 354,Cumbrlamd 45.
Or
(oct6-10)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER U, 192?
Public Sale
OF
SUBURBAN PROPERTY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18
at 10:30 a. m:
As executor of the estate of Thos.
K. 'Bryan we will sell at auction
onr.the premises, the following des
cribed .property i
5 acres of land, more or lessj with
dwelling and. two small hams fee.
ing about- 200 .feet on Marshall
Streetj near city limits of Paris, Ky.
The property wiU he sold as a
whole. This will make an attractive
purphase for subdivision into build-
ing lots.
-Terms made known at sale.
BOURBON AGRICULTURAL BANK
& TRUST CO.
Executors of Thos. K Bryan.
. (3-10-17)
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PARIS, KY,
Btgan Business Jan. 3, 1916
CAPITAL
$60,000.00
SURPLUS
$26,000.00
OFFICERS
Frank P. Kiser, President
B. L. Weathers, Vies Prtaldtnt
W. wAtohell, cashier
Jno. W. Yerkts, Asa't Caaklcr
Dan Peed, Jr., Bookkeeper...
JUNE 30. 1921
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BmCrHTERjQ,
EVENINGS
Just History
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The Colonial Dame
Spun her cloth '
By Candle flame.
In 1860
In Crinoline brig ht,
She greeted htr rnesti
By Coal Oil light
And later on,
How time doei pan
Her home was lit
By flickering Gas.
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But the girl of to-day
Who wants her home bright,
Just presses a button
And has Electric light.
Paris Gas & Electric Co.
(Incorporated)
W. X. 1AXLAXD, Owser.
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